EAST COAST VISIT

By Brian Sanderson,

I had decided to see Estrick Park not realising John Winn had visited yesterday.
Looking through the divisions on the internet I decided to visit the East Yorkshire Cricket Alliance League.This consists of four divisions covering teams around Hull.

The match I decided to see was the only one in this league Kirkella against South Holderness which was in the EYCA Cup.After riding round Kirk Ella I found the ground.
As usual there were no signs outside the ground. It is situated behind a big house who sold the land to the Cricket Club in the 1960,s.The match started at 12.00 and so I thought it was a fifty over match however when arriving South Holderness walked off after 20 overs. They had scored 151 for 7.

Talking to the Kirkella scorer the cup was now a twenty over match from last year.He could not understand why as the match would finish at about 3.00 so losing good cricket time.

Kirkella started slowly and were behind the scoring rate after 10 overs.However they started to hit the ball into the fields surrouding the pitch. So in the last over they required 16 off the last over to win.First two balls went for two sixes.After a long delay trying to find the ball in vain there was a run out bring the eighth wicket to fall.Next two ball brought three runs.One run to win off the last bowl Kirkella could not achieve it and a run out happen.It was a tie but Kirkella lost the match because they had lost more wickets.I had been helping the scorer so found it vey interesting.

Moving on to Estrick were Yorkshire Gentlemen were batting against York Ramblers.
There was steady drizzle and went in side to see the photographs.Noticed Capt Standyforth in the Army side.He is one of my favorite Yorkshire players.He played three times for Yorkshire but was England Captain on tour to South Africa.A quote from one the South Africans stated that Standyforth may be not the best batsman but was a excellent speaker at lunches.

One of the Gentlemen players was Geoff Barker who played as Arthington in October.He said that it was his first season with the club and was opening the batting and bowling.He scored 58 to help the Gentlemen reach 188 for 3 when they declared.
York went in for thirty minutes before tea and scored 48 for no lose.The rain was still falling so decided to go home and watch Yorkshire on the computor.

A very different day from the last four.